Trends of intellectual awareness-building in the face of extremism and terrorism "An analytical thesis on a sample of tweets published in the Twitter account of the Intellectual War Center".

Abstract

Clarifying the concept of intellectual awareness-building, its trends, and significance, as well as introducing the Intellectual War Center at the Ministry of Defense and its objectives. In addition to the analysis of trends in intellectual awareness-building in the face of extremism and terrorism at the Intellectual War Center. Besides revealing the characteristics and means of intellectual awareness-building at the Intellectual War Center. And revealing the sources of reasoning to build intellectual awareness in the face of extremism and terrorism at the Intellectual War Center.

Thesis Methodology: the Analytical method (content analysis).

The results of the thesis: are that intellectual awareness-building is the organized and sequential intellectual process of spreading awareness in several directions. And that intellectual awareness leads to an achieved result, which is reaching national security and intellectual security. Only (70) tweets were within the trend of intellectual awareness-building to adhere to a faith, values, and human rights, and this constitutes 11.2% of the total (624) tweets of the thesis sample. As well (328) tweets were within the trend of intellectual awareness-building in warning against extremist and terrorist entities and explaining their characteristics and methods, and these 328 came first, and this constitutes 52.6% of the total (624) tweets of the thesis sample. And that (522) tweets contained the protective characteristics of intellectual awareness-building, which constitutes 83.7%. And (51) tweets that contained healing characteristics for intellectual awareness-building. The vast majority of the tweets came without sources of reasoning, which constituted 81.3% of the total tweets of the thesis sample. Then the tweets that depended on the sources of inference on the written and intellectual pieces of evidence came and constituted 15.7%, and finally, the tweets that depended on the sources of inference came on the Systematic and legal pieces of evidence constituted only 3% of the total (624) tweets of the thesis sample.

Recommendations: Develop strategies for intellectual awareness-building, proceeding according to the scientific and intellectual stages that fit the stage and target group and the differentiation between them. Developing a special methodology for the content of tweets; to include special areas with topics related to each field. Defining the extremist groups and entities, their origins, stages, founders, and their methods and ways clearly. Attempting to attract specialists in intellectual security in universities and security authorities, even as an advisory board, which is made up of the membership of those bodies. Holding scientific meetings, seminars, and conferences to confront the danger of extremist and terrorist ideas. Attempting to write to the entities and individuals specialized in the appropriate topics in line with the contemporary stage and conditions. The researcher hopes that there will be an interaction between the intellectual war center and the institutions of society with regard to immunizing society in the face of extremism and terrorism. It is significant to activate the role of the Intellectual War Center in the media and to publish its goals and tweets so that society can benefit from it. Studying the sent text and observing its conditions in terms of the integrity of language, good description, the beauty of style, appropriateness, and gradualness in it. Careful selection of reasoning, evidence, and mental images. To produce repentant models from the owners of extremist or terrorist entities and for their intellectual reviews.